A UTV Live report by Niall Donnelly from the second year of protests at the Drumcree march near Portadown. Residents of the nationalist Garvaghy Road again protested at the marching route filing past their area, and the police had initially barred the Orange Order from the road. As with the year before, a huge gathering of Orange Order members descended upon the area of Drumcree church with an equally large contingent of the security forces to hold them in check.

However, on this occasion the anger from both sides of the community spread out from the area and all across Northern Ireland, with several nights of rioting in both nationalist and loyalist communities causing damage and violence through civil disorder on a scale not seen for many years. Unionist parties pulled out of the talks process in protest at the Garvaghy Road decision and, in the mayhem of the week, a breakaway faction of the UVF murdered a Catholic and a nationalist youth was killed when run over by an RUC land rover while protesting in Derry.

In the end, with widespread destruction across the province, the RUC took the decision to allow the march after all and enforced this with a huge and sudden security presence along the road, with all protestors removed.

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